Lord Bowlich @lordbowlich@hackers.town
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Rural Remote Software Developer. Blogger of Random Things. Amateur Philosopher. Woolly Mountain Man.
Joined Apr 2019
Something I wish...
I wish that I could just do "=" followed by basic some math in the shell and it would just echo out the result. Right now, I drop into the python runtime whenever I want to do some quick math, e.g.
> =2+2
4
>SOMEVAR=2
>=$SOMEVAR+2
4
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Web 1.0 was - ideologically - the most healthy model for the internet we have ever seen, as it was decentralized and far less constrained by the jaws of capitalism.
Web 1.0 was a glimpse into a sustainable, communal, anarchist internet that was promptly crushed by capitalism.
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The Star Wars Aesthetic everyone loves is simple: knurled metal, leather, minimal plastic, lots of linen. Jackets and bandoliers may be nylon. Your outfits get 3 colors and 1 accent. That accent is best used for a metal.
Blue denim is forbidden, but dyed or bleached is common. Ceramics are great, and so are rugged polycarbs.
No smooth plastic; even if they used it as a prop. In real life it moves wrong.
There, you're welcome. You can reproduce it easy now.
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On this day in 1890 the wounded knee massacre occurred.
My Review for the Art of Computer Science:
The Art of Computer Science is such a lovely giant tome that fits nicely into the background of any video job interview.
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@lordbowlich Like trying to use private browsing at the New York Times.
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Programmers should plan for lower pay https://www.jefftk.com/p/programmers-should-plan-for-lower-pay
" Programmers are paid surprisingly well given how much work it is to become one... we don't really understand why programmers are paid this well, and especially why this has persisted."
Well, guess that's the last time I'll click on a link to Bloomberg. Nothing lost.
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This is a friendly reminder that when two people on the fediverse have a disagreement, you don't *have* to express your opinion about it in their mentions, use the opportunity to make a loosely-related political point, or join a spiralling public drama about it.
It can be hard to break the habits we formed on platforms where techbros have monetised our negative emotions, divisions, and innate desire to belong. But your activist energy can be better directed, and your mental health will benefit.
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in my neighborhood theres a cvs and a walgreens right across the street from each other. thinking of approaching them with a yojimbo type deal
Sometimes, I look at all the cool zanny hacking projects people are working on without any kind of monetization motive and I wish that I didn't need to spend so many of my cycles doing dev work for an employer -- there are so many cook projects and totally commercially unviable ideas that are just dying to be worked on and would be so much more fun and cool than anything any employer has ever offered to let me work on in return for cash.
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Privacy policy update from Tivo. I read it in its entirety since they didn't summarize the update. The key thing to understand is that Tivo (a) just got bought (b) thinks of itself as an advertising company now.
The privacy policy explicitly states that they can and will sell / transfer every piece of information they can gather to advertising partners. What you watch, when you watch it, how long you watched it, where you watched it from, what device you used, which ads you skipped, all of it including a lot of personally identifiable information.
I strongly suggest setting your tivo on fire in a parking lot somewhere. If fire isn't your thing, get a bucket of water and give your tivo an extended and through bath. The solder points particularly need scrubbing with a wire brush.
The privacy policy explicitly states that they can and will sell / transfer every piece of information they can gather to advertising partners. What you watch, when you watch it, how long you watched it, where you watched it from, what device you used, which ads you skipped, all of it including a lot of personally identifiable information.
I strongly suggest setting your tivo on fire in a parking lot somewhere. If fire isn't your thing, get a bucket of water and give your tivo an extended and through bath. The solder points particularly need scrubbing with a wire brush.
https://alexvermeer.com/8760hours/
It's the end of the year, so I'm doing my planning for the next year. I stumbled on this guide a couple years ago and have found it a pretty nice system for thinking about the next year.
I particularly took to the idea of mind mapping. Before I wrote out long prose journals on the last year and what I'd like to see in the next and would then ignore them. Diagrams are so much more easier to take in all at once.
I keep looking at maps of U.S./Mexico border towns lately and the one thing keeps jumping out at me is that the Mexican city blocks are always about 1/2 the size of the U.S. city blocks.
I wonder what quirk of history lead to this development?
In fairness though. I've had a lot of liberal friends also hate on Atlas Shrugged having never actually read it themselves.
The article though pretty much sums up my thoughts when I read it. It's a fun bit of Science Fiction on par with most SciFi from that era. The heroes are unrealistic. Most of the conservative fans of the book would really be villians. I think there's a lot of associations and ideas that weren't really in the book itself that got attached to the book after it was published by either the author or her fans.
I do sometimes wonder if conservative fans of that book ever actually read it. It is an awfully thick book.
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Joined Apr 2019
